Equipping poor families with HIV/AIDS life skills
Help for Families with AIDS in Africa
Summary
We will provide home-based care to 250 rural families infected and affected by HIV, offer mobile VCT, provide orphans with economic and educational options to enable them increase their life options.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In Moi’s Bridge, a rural location in Uasin Gishu, frail grandmothers have taken over parenting duties after the deaths of able-bodied parents. “At the end of the day, my grandchildren simply want food, they want to attend school, they need drugs…how do I tell them I can’t deliver anymore?” says Minayo, 84 years. We will empower grannies with agribusiness skills, provide them with food baskets while a community outreach program will emphasize behaviour change and reduce further HIV infection.
Activities
Training grandmothers on modern farming will sustain their food security and increase their financial prospects and ensure their grandchildren have access to nutritional foods, better shelter, education and a secure environment.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $9,129
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $30,870
Total Funding Goal: $40,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The project hopes to strengthen community safety nets by building strong family structures and empowering 250 vulnerable households through long-term skills-building to ensure poverty and HIV/Aids are both effectively addressed.
Project Message
“I always regret not having education. But I also know regret alone won’t assist me. That is why I’m fighting to have all my grandchildren attend and complete school. Only this will pacify me!”
- Esther Mudhasia, 78 years old, Project Beneficiary, caring for 11 grandchildren
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Stella Amojong
Program Coordinator
OLOO STREET, 64 ARCADE, 1st Floor
P.O Box 630
Eldoret, RIFT VALLEY PROV, 30100
Kenya
+254-53-2061269
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Project Sponsor
Organization
Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI)
Market Street Siro House, 2nd Flr, Room 207
ELDORET,
RIFT VALLEY PROVINCE
P.O Box 14
Kenya
+254-720-8446605
Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI)'s Current Projects on GlobalGiving
 Breaking the cycle of gender violence |
 Uplifting Teen Mothers in Kenya |
Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI)'s Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
 Encourage Rural Communities Know their HIV Status |
 Supporting Poor Families Affected by HIV/AIDS |
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Kenya
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on January 16, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
Special appeal
By Stella Amojong - Director, October 22, 2009 01:46 PM
I take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for your continued support throughout this year. With your donations, we assisted 25 families in rural villages acquire seeds and fertilizer during the planting season, enabling them strengthen their food security.
Through the Support Cycle, GEMINI has also reached out to 78 PLWHA-providing them with counseling, home-based care and transportation to hospitals to acquire ARVs.
We have also provided free VCT to marginalized communities in Karara, Kapkoi, Kidiwa and Langas. Over the last couple of months, we have provided free HIV testing to 414 clients.
“I thank all of you for your unwavering support in caring for us,” says Mama Steve, one of the PLWHA beneficiaries. “We really appreciate all your donations. I shudder to think what would happen if we did not have such source of unwavering support…!”
As the year trudges to an end, we are simply hoping that even the tiniest donation will go a long way in supporting these communities. We hope to reach an extra 20% of the community residing in unreachable villages. With the El Nino rains pounding the countryside, we are facing tough times as we try to reach interior villages.
Once again, we are thankful that we have your support to lean on and we can only hope for better tidings. Please keep sending your observations, comments and feedback coming our way…
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